slowness

noun — 2 senses

slowness

noun

Etymology From slow + -ness.

1

Usually The quality or state of being slow.

  • Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult.2003 April 30, Hazel Muir, “Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism”, in New Scientist, retrieved 15 Nov 2012:
2

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Usually A unit, the reciprocal of velocity, that delineates the amount of time required for an object to travel a given distance.

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